• The policing of social discontent and the construction of the social body: mapping the expansion and militerization of the police organization in Turkey in the post-1980 period 

  Berksoy, Biriz Gonca. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)

  The police organization in Turkey has gone through a major transformation process after the 1980 coup d’état. Within this period its personnel and budget were significantly enlarged, para-militaristic units were established, ...
• Militarism, capitalism and the State: putting the military in its place in Turkey 

  Akça, İsmet. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2006., 2006.)

  This dissertation̕s overriding objectives are to theoretically come to terms with and toempirically expose the complex forms of articulation between militarism and capitalismin Turkey. Following a critical evaluation of ...
• Islamism and islamic literature in contemporary Turkey: From epic to novel understandings of Islam 

  Çayır, Kenan. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2004., 2004.)

  This study explores Islamism and Islamic identities through literary representations of Islamism in Turkey in the last two decades, a period in which Islamism came on the public agenda through novels, films, music and other ...
• The "Ethnic Conflict" factor in democratic consolidation 

  İlter, R. Ebru. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2003., 2003.)

  This study aims to explore the potential linkage between ethnic conflict and democratic consolidation through scrutinizing the experiences of two consolidated and two unstable democracies. Four different variables assist ...
• Turkish-US security relations 1945-2003: a game-theoretical analysis of the institutional effect 

  Tuğtan, Mehmet Ali. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)

  This study aims to test the relevance of the neo-institutionalist theory in Turkish-US security relations by using a game-theoretical model. If successful, such an undertaking would provide one with tested theoretical ...
• Alevis, the state and the Sivas incident :|problems of democratization 

  Önen, Levent. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)

  The Sivas Incident is one of the most tragic and controversial events of the Republican history. It is a multidimensional event involving many critical issues that pertain to democratization of Turkey: the inadequate ...
• Germany's commitment to and impact on European integration: |continuity or change? 

  Kaiser, Bianca. (Thesis (Ph.D.)- Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1998., 1998.)

  This study examines whether, and to what extent, united Germany's commitment to and impact on European integration has changed. A cO)llparative analysis over time is undertaken by contrasting West Germany's European policy ...
• The legitimacy of secularism :|a conceptual analysis 

  Usturalı, Adil. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)

  The purpose of this study is to provide a conceptual analysis of secularism as a constitutional principle specifically in the context of constitutional democracies. For these purposes, the critique of the concept is ...
• Constitutional courts during political upheavals :|the case of the Turkish Constitutional Court 

  Demirtaş, Abdullah Erdem. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)

  Constitutional courts operate at the intersection of law and politics. Their task is to defend the normative superiority of the constitution by reviewing the constitutionality of laws. In doing so, they engage with other ...
• Encounters with neoliberal globalization :|South Korea and Turkey in comparative perspective 

  Kim, Thergill. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)

  Despite being on different development paths, South Korea and Turkey faced economic crises triggered by external shocks and unsustainable industrial policies in the late 1970s. The economic policies of both countries ...
• The political economy of Kurdish voting behavior :|the case of Istanbul's Bağcılar district 

  Kuran, İbrahim. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)

  This dissertation examines Kurdish voting behavior and shifts the focus from identity politics to class-based cleavage. It analyzes the reasons behind the Kurdish political preferences between the HDP and AKP in Bağcılar ...
• Immanuel Kant's philosophical-anthropological approach to international relations: |freedom, equality and human rights within constitutional and international legality 

  Sinirlioğlu, Feridun Hadi. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1996., 1996.)

  This dissertation attempts to challenge the axiomatic separation and isolation of the international from the domestic politics through the. medium of Kant. In this context, the "republican constitutionalism with a cosmopolitan ...
• Turkey’s Israel policy in the post-Cold War period :|the struggle of identity over realpolitik 

  Nasi, Selin. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)

  This study offers a neoclassical realist analysis of Turkey’s post-Cold War Israel policy. By looking at both foreign and domestic developments, this study analyzes the course of Turkish-Israeli relations from a historical ...
• The status of Palestine in the United Nations and its implications for the Israeli–Palestinian conflict 

  Gümüş, Abdurrahman. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)

  The Palestinian application for UN membership in 2011 started the debates over the nature of statehood and reactivated the initiatives in different bodies of the UN. This dissertation focuses on the role of the UN in the ...
• Identifty, informal institutions and collective action in Istanbul’s Rum community in the twenty-first century 

  Theodorelis-Rigas, Charalampos. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)

  This thesis explores the contemporary Istanbul Rum community from a series of new and provocative perspectives. It focuses on Rum identity, institutions, space and collective action through the prism of recent challenges ...
• In search of sustainable peace :|conflict transformation in Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina 

  Vila, Jubjana. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)

  The struggle for the establishment of the sustainable peace continues in some Western Balkan countries like Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo. This comparative case study explores the role of intervention process on post-conflict ...
• The presidency of religious affairs, women, and politics in Turkey: 1968 – 2014 

  Genç Yıldız, Ece Han. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)

  This study aims to provide an understanding of the evolving role of the Presidency of Religious Affairs (PRA) or Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı and its implications for women. Due to democratization, over the years PRA’s ...
• A critical history of the concept of progress: Salvaging the repressed normative content 

  Yasin, Buğra. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)

  This study revisits the concept of progress for the purpose of excavating and laying bare its normative content. The critical examination of its conceptual history enables me to delineate two ideal-types of progress which ...
• The impacts of alternative Weltanschauungs on political theories :|a comparison of tawhid and ontological proximity 

  Davutoğlu, Ahmet, 1959- (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 1990., 1990.)
• Rethinking the political economy of contemporary water struggles in Turkey from a comparative perspective :|space, structures and agency 

  Kavak, Sinem. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)

  This dissertation examines role of political economy in contemporary agrarian mobilizations. By focusing on recent water struggles in Turkey against the run-ofthe- river hydropower plants (SHPs); the research digs into the ...

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